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Consistency: The Best Training Tool Available to Everyone

Does exercise variation matter as much as you think? Coach Kendall Green makes a case for the overarching value of consistency in an athletic training…

Athlete Pushing Sled|Consistency|Different Tools

Top 8 Treadmill Workouts for Sports Conditioning

Running on a treadmill doesn’t have to be boring, and you don’t want athletes to feel like they’re going nowhere, fast. Coach Carl Valle presents…

Treadmill Workout|Treadmill Matrix

Can Coaches Use Parkour as a Novel Training Intervention?

It may look like something unreal out of an action movie, but parkour has great value for helping develop athleticism in team sport athletes. Coach…

Parkour Jump

Test Yourself: The Hierarchy of Coaching Needs

Explore new criteria put forth by Keir Wenham-Flatt to evaluate your own performance as a strength and conditioning coach, as well as those of your…

Coaches Needs

Swim Faster to Play Better: Building the Complete Water Polo Player

Not unlike the need to train speed in team sport players, Coach Pete Arroyo discusses getting water polo athletes to swim better in order to…

Water Polo Athlete
Ladder Uses

Do Ladders Have a Purpose? 4 Simple Ways to Utilize this Training Tool

Although ladders can be a source of controversy in training, Coach TJ Cahill suggests four practical ways that coaches can…

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Building Game Fitness with Leg Circuit Variations and Progressions

For coaches who use leg circuits, Coach Pete Arroyo suggests adding the Gambetta leg circuit to your toolbox. He also…

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Deadlift Gym

How Young Coaches Can Set Their Guiding Principles

When coaches don’t have a set of defined, guiding principles, they’re more likely to chase new training methods and change…

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Slam Dunk

Building a Better “Bounce”

The tendons, which control an athlete’s elasticity, tend to come second to the muscles when it comes to athletic conditioning.…

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Female Athlete Bounding|Force Vector

Why the Force-Vector Theory Is Inadequate as a Basis for Exercise Selection

The right exercise for an athlete is the one that improves their performance, regardless of the direction in which they…

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Golf Balance

Do Nondominant-Side Swings Do Anything in Golf?

Chris Finn takes a look at the theories supporting the use of nondominant-side swings in golf training and dissects each…

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Wicket Drills

Rethinking Coaching Drills – What Are We Really Doing?

What’s the deal with sprint drills? Although they seem to be getting more popular, not all coaches like to use…

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